• כֶּ˜לֶב S 3611 TWOT 981a GK 3978 n.m. 1 S 24:15 dog ( ^NH id.; Ph. כלב ^;

Aramaic כַּלְבָּא , ܟܰܠܒܳܐ ( kalbo ); Arabic كَلْبٌ ( kalbun ); Ethiopic ˜˜˜

( kalb ) Assyrian kalbu Dl ^{HWB 328}) — abs. כ׳ Ju 7:5 + 16 times, כָּ˜לֶב ψ 59:7 , 15 ; pl. כְּלָבִים 1 K 14:11 + 12 times; cstr. כַּלְבֵי Jb 30: 1; sf. כְּלָבֶיךָ ψ 68:24 ;— dog: a. lit. 1 K 14:11 ; 16:4 ; 21:19 ^(×2), 23 , 24 ; 22:38 2 K 9:1 0, 36 (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); cf. Je 15:3 and
( לְשֹׁוךָ כְּלָבֶיךָ ) ψ 68:24 ; eating torn flesh, Ex 22:30 ( E ), כַּלְבֵי צֹאנִי = my sheep-dogs , only Jb 30:1 (in both these with implied inferiority); dog-sacrifice was a heathen rite Is 66:3 ( Di al. ); v. especially RS ^Sem i. 273 (291), 325
(343) ; in various sim. Ju 7:5 Pr 26:1 1, 17 ψ 59:7 , 15 ; in proverbial sayings: יֶחֱרַץ־כ׳ לִשֹׁנֹו לֹא Ex 11:7 ( v. I. חרץ ); לְכ׳ חַי הוּא טֹוב מִן־ הָאַרְיֵה הַמֵּת Ec 9: 4. b. applied, fig. , to men, in contempt 1 S 17:43 , so of psalmist’s enemies ψ 22:17 , 21 , or in excessive humility 2 K 8:13 ; still more emphatically כ׳ מֵת a dead dog , הַכּ׳ הַמֵּת 2 S 9: 8; 16:8 ; also רֹאשׁ כ׳ 3:8 ; כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים Is 56:10 (of misleading prophets), הַכּ׳ עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ v 11 ( id. ); כ׳ was name given to male temple-prostitutes Dt 23:19 ( v. D r; cf. קָדֵשׁ ).

• כָּלֵב S 3612 GK 3979 n.pr.m. ( ^{Nab. n.pr.} כלבא Eut ( Nö ) p. 55 . כלבו Vog Nab. 6 ; cf. also We Skizzen u. Vorarbeiten iii. 217 ; on כָּלֵב = dog-clan , v. RS ^K 17, 190 f., 219, 254 ) ;—son of יְפֻנֶּה ( Ö Χαλεβ ; cf. Lag ^{BN 78}), called הַקְּנִזִּי ( v. קְנַז ) in JE, Nu 32:12 Jos 14: 6, 14 , cf. 15:17 = Ju 1:1 3, Ju 3:9 (where קְנַז is brother of כ׳ ), also 1 Ch 4:15 ; treated as full Judahite only in P Nu 13:6 ( v. GFM Ju p. 30 f.) the one

Thes W. Gesenius, Thesaurus Linguae Hebraeae . Ph. Phenician.

×2 two times. E Elohist. Di A. Dillmann. al. et aliter , and elsewhere; also et alii , and others. RS W. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites. sim. simile.

Dr S. R. Driver. Eut J. Euting. Vog C. J. M. de Vogüé, Syrie Centrale.

Nab. Nabataean. RS W. Robertson Smith, Kinship & Marriage in Early Arabia; Lag P. de Lagarde, Bildung d. Nomina .

GFM G. F. Moore.